River cruising
14/5/2019
We left the Calder at Castleford, it of the roving bridge, where the Aire drops in from Leeds. East on the Aire, a lazy coastal plain river, winding through farmland, past cooling towers, chemical works, oil refineries.
Where the Aire makes a final dawdle to the Humber estuary, the short Selby canal branches north, to join the Ouse. This is York's Ouse, not the southern Great and Little Ouses, they of the Cambridge area.
At the great tidal lock at Selby, one books a passage to launch out on to a rising tide, and belt NW to the even greater lock at Naburn, about 5 miles downstream from York. From there, only the erratic rise and fall of the river a challenge, as most of the rain that falls on the Yorkshire Dales drains out to the North Sea via the Ouse. We are moored above Naburn overnight, to achieve a filling of the water tank and the draining of the septic tank. The latter is needed every 2 weeks approximately with 2 aboard, and the water tank weekly.
These large locks feature a vertical guide pole, where you rope the boat to slide it up or down, avoiding the frothy turbulence of emptying or filling water.
Where the Aire makes a final dawdle to the Humber estuary, the short Selby canal branches north, to join the Ouse. This is York's Ouse, not the southern Great and Little Ouses, they of the Cambridge area.
At the great tidal lock at Selby, one books a passage to launch out on to a rising tide, and belt NW to the even greater lock at Naburn, about 5 miles downstream from York. From there, only the erratic rise and fall of the river a challenge, as most of the rain that falls on the Yorkshire Dales drains out to the North Sea via the Ouse. We are moored above Naburn overnight, to achieve a filling of the water tank and the draining of the septic tank. The latter is needed every 2 weeks approximately with 2 aboard, and the water tank weekly.
These large locks feature a vertical guide pole, where you rope the boat to slide it up or down, avoiding the frothy turbulence of emptying or filling water.
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